Huntsville gazette., 1887-02-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


letter to a telegraph operator at Grand
Forks, D. T., and told him to send them
over the wires.
No American has ever yet sue
ceeded in eating above twenty-five
pumpkin pies while trying ia make a
champion of himself.-Detroit Free
= Press.
A member of the San Bernardino
grand jury got tired of the monotonous
proceedings the other day and started
off on prospecting trip. The sheriff
was sent after him, and had to travel
800 miles across the desert to reach the
absent juryman.
What is called "seat" in the New
York Stock Exchange was sold recent
ly for $29, 900, but the man who bought
it will have to stand up all day and
shout at the top of his voice in order to
make profit on his investment-BaL
tiD10Te american.
"A hardware man in Illinois is in
hard luck. He offered stove to any
person who would guess the correct
number of seeds in pumkin in his
store window. One of the guessers put
the number at 240,7S7. There were
500 seeds, and six persons guessed the
correct number Chicago Tribune.
"A chunk of a boy asked Ticket
Seller Ayres for half-fare ticket to
Cheshire, the other day. ''How old
are you?" asked the ticket seller.
s'Ten years old" said the boy. "When
were you born?' asked Mr.. Ayres.
"Ten years ago. said the young Yam
kee He got his half-fare ticket
Boston Journal.
Some one has invented an iron rail-
way car, so that in case of collision the
passengers can't be roasted. He seems
to have forgotten that statistics show
that only one passenger for every ninety
killed is roasted to death in u car.
What the times demand is switchman
who never sleeps and Il telegraph opera
tor who never makes mistake. Nor
ristoaOn Herald.
The editor of the Washington
Critic, who has evidently visited a fair
before, says: 1--WE expect to pay
twenty-five cents apiece for one con-
secutive five-cent cigar this very even
ing. Five cents for the cigar, five for
the beautiful hand we take it from.
five for the lovely eyes that look at it
90, five for the cherry lips that tell the
price, and five for charity; isn't that
cheap enough?'
While employees Of the railroad
company were blasting rock to be used
as filing along the line of the Columbia
& Puget Sound road, they found, thirty
feetfrom the facing and in solid rock, a
mass of petriied terredos imbedded in
the sandstone. 1t is stated by old resi-
dents on salt water that this is the first
instance they ever heard of where the
worm has been found petrifed.-
Seattle( W. z. J Press.
An enthusiastic New York dentist
recently said in an address that if all
the workers in woods, metals and clays,
molders, porcelain workers and decora-
tors, painters and sculptors, ''were sud
denly and simultaneously destroyed,
those arts would not be lost, for in the
ranks of the dentists could be found
experts in every one of them; and if in
the same grand catastrophe all tho
scientists of certain classes were cut off
the same sciences could be fully taught
by dentists"
On the planet Jupiter, according to
~
to about thirty of our years. They be-
come bald at the age of twenty-nine,
and knowing this to be the sure precur-
sor of their death within a year, they
instantly set about preparing them
selves for that event. When we re-
member how men act on this miserable
old earth after they become bald, we
don't see how they can ever look at
Jupiter without blushing for shame
LeaUenUorth Times.
One Of the most admired perform
ers in sensational DRAM recently pro-
duced in Cincinnati was a big bulldog,
that at critical point in the play came
bounding out, and, seizing the villain
by the throat, or thereabouts. hung on
like grim death, amid uproarious ap-
plause. The other night he grabbed
his man as usual, but something gave
way, and the dog fell near the foot
Ii ights, and then he stood there and
calmly ate big piece of liver, which
had been fastened under the villains
throat and had hitherto been the in
centive for the dogs exertion.-C CTncin-
natl Times.
Twenty-Five years ago Thomas
King, a young Englishman, came tn
Manayunk, Pa, and there fell in love
with young woman whom he would
have married had not George w. Knox.
a young man of the place, warned him
that she was not what he thought she
was. King found that Knox was right.
and was so thankful for his escape that
he said he would reward him when he
got rich. He went back to London.
and there died the other day, and in his